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I've installed a rain barrel. Okay, not really, but I did position four plastic containers on top of my garden closet, just under the eaves of my shed. Collectively, they probably hold seven gallons or so. Of course, we haven't had rain for so long, it doesn't matter what mechanism I use. No rain=zero collection. * * * * * * * But don't tell anyone I have those rain-collection gizmos. The government might charge me a fee, like the town in Ohio that charges people a fee to put in a rain barrel. * * * * * * * I added cocoa shell mulch to my garden this weekend. My garden runs a little high on the PH side. The cocoa will lower the PH, help immensely with moisture retention (could be very important this hot summer), and keep weeds down. It also looks great. The only drawback: It costs a lot of money, too much for me to cover my entire garden, so I just covered the parts that prefer a little more acid (peppers and tomatoes).

Over the weekend, I found this interesting sentence in Nock's Henry George about the 19th century: "Conditions were bad in London, and as bad if not a trifle worse in the great industrial towns which William Cobbett, years before, had bluntly called Hell-holes." This passage interests me for two reasons: (1) Did Cobbett coin that term? (2) Was Nock a Cobbett fan? The latter greatly interests me, because I maintain that there is a strong link between Chesterton and libertarianism, properly understood (or, more precisely, understood the way I use it). Was Nock a Cobbett fan? GKC was:

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